Posted on 05/24/2025 12:34:06 PM PDT by dynachrome
A Colorado man who founded and directed an orphanage in Haiti has been sentenced to 210 years in prison for sexually abusing children there. Michael Karl Geilenfeld, 73, founded the St. Joseph’s Home for Boys in 1985, which housed orphaned, impoverished, and vulnerable children in Haiti.
In the over two decades that Geilenfeld operated the orphanage, the Department of Justice said that he "repeatedly traveled from the United States to Haiti, where he sexually abused the boys entrusted to his care." The children also suffered physical and emotional abuse at the hands of Geilenfeld.
A federal jury convicted Geilenfeld in February 2025 of one count of traveling in foreign commerce for the purpose of engaging in illicit sexual conduct and six counts of engaging in illicit sexual conduct in a foreign place between 2005 and 2010.
Each of the six counts relates to a separate victim, who were all children at the time of the offense. The victims testified in the trial about the sexual abuse they endured, and the lasting impact it has left.
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Just dump him in the middle of the street in Port Au Prince, he won’t last five minutes.
Beat me to it.
Good gosh....😳🙀😨
,,, at 73 years of age the 210 year sentence is unrealistic. It should be commuted to a 100 year sentence and multiple amputations. Leave him with one hand with a thumb on it.
Sad that one evil idiot gets to successfully tarnish all good works done by others, missionaries.
Are all teachers pedophiles? Certainly not over 10%, and their evil poisons by association the great good done by the rest.
Evil sucks.
Journalism today:
Here’s a story about a U.S. citizen in Haiti:
“Colorado man sentenced to 210 years in prison for sexually abusing boys at his orphanage in Haiti”
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4318907/posts
Here’s a story about a Mexican national in the U.S.:
“Newport Beach man accused of entering US illegally and embezzling $7 million from employer”
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4318848/posts
“Haitian Revolution 1985-1986
In 1985 large, unchecked demonstrations, coupled with American and French pressure, destabilized the government of dictator Jean Claude Duvalier (November-December).
In 1986, as demonstrations grew and American and French pressure intensified, the government of dictator Jean Claude Duvalier fell; he fled Haiti (February 7), and a period of instability followed.
References
Timelines of War, 511, 513.”
Prison general population can rehabilitate him.
,,, at 73 years of age the 210 year sentence is unrealistic.
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Agree. How about a shotgun blast to the junk, from about 5 feet away?
I don’t trust men who want to run an organization for young boys. That’s an odd calling.
I wonder where his wife was during all this?
I wonder if Mr. Kendrick will get his money back? Reported August 6, 2015 in the Richmond Times-Dispatch:
Richmond-area charity members celebrate win in defamation suit Director had been accused of abuse at Haiti boys’ home
BY LAURA KEBEDE
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Richmond-area board members of a North Carolina-based nonprofit that does work in Haiti celebrated a recent verdict which they said symbolically exonerated executive director Michael Geilenfeld from accusations of child molestation.
Paul Kendrick, a Maine activist for sexual abuse victims, was ordered to pay $14.5 million to Geilenfeld and the charity after leading a four-year email campaign to hundreds of donors perpetuating false accusations, The Associated Press reported.
The trial in Maine included testimony of Willie Dell, a former Richmond councilwoman and longtime friend of the nonprofit, on the executive director’s behalf, as well as seven Haitian men who claimed Geilenfeld sexually abused them while at St. Joseph’s Home for Boys in Port-au-Prince.
Three of the 11 board members for Hearts with Haiti live in the Richmond area, and several churches in the area frequently send volunteers to the organization’s Wings of Hope home for children with disabilities, St. Joseph’s Home for Boys and Trinity House for program graduates’ business startups.
“T saw Michael as a very caring person ... who was about saving the children, as many as he could,” said Dell, who first visited the home in 1986 and then up to twice per year since.
“He determined they were going to be a family and live as a family.”
Three of the accusers never lived at the home and the others never exhibited signs of abuse, Dell said. Board member Brenda Halbrooks, pastor at Three Chopt Presbyterian Church, said the verdict affirmed the integrity of the organization and ministry.
“We’re just thrilled with the verdict,” Halbrooks said. “The lawsuit was never about vengeance but about the damage to the organization.”
The accusations first came in the 1980s, Dell said, but each time they resurfaced, investigations by Haitian and U.S. officials and a private investigator hired by the nonprofit’s board found the claims to be unsubstantiated.
The jury awarded $7.5 million to Hearts with Haiti, which included $5 million in what the organization deemed to be a decrease in donations since Kendrick started his sometimes-daily email blast that personally attacked Geilenfeld and the board members for continuing to support him and accused Dell of selling drugs and participating in sexual acts with the boys. Geilenfeld was awarded $7 million.
Atleast a portion of the damages will be paid for by Kendrick’s homeowners insurance, according to The Associated Press, but the full amount is not guaranteed to the organization.
Alan Stone, board vice president and a Richmond businessman, described Kendrick as a “tortured individual.” The board filed the defamation suit in 2013 to halt the disruption.
“It’s virtually been our sole focus,” Stone said, adding that the drop in donations meant a cutback in services for the children. “It was very worrisome. ... These are people who can’t take care of themselves at all.”
St. Joseph’s Home for Boys, which takes in former child slaves and street kids, was shut down following Geilenfeld’s detainment in Haiti in September and reopened for those 18 and older in mid-May following his release. The organization still is working with the country’s social services department to allow younger boys to re-enter care at the home, Stone said.
During the trial, Geilenfeld contended he was falsely accused because he was a gay man in a nation he described as homophobic, The Associated Press reported.
Board member Laura Wright was first at the home during the 2010 earthquake that ravaged the capital. When young men from the home visited Richmond for a dance tour after the accusations resurfaced, Wright said the Haitian men made a point to share their experiences while living at St. Joseph’s Home for Boys and denounced the accusations against Geilenfeld.
“It’s not an orphanage.
It’s a home. They are brothers,” Wright said. “None of us would have allowed this to go on if it were true.”
Following Geilenfeld’s experience in the Haitian prison without charges being filed against him, the organization plans to launch a prison ministry.
“We all prayed daily for Michael and Paul Kendtick. ... There’s just so many ways that good things have come out of what was meant for evil,” said Halbrooks, Three Chopt Presbyterian’s pastor. The verdict “is a symbol of justice and innocence and gives us the opportunity to move forward.”
Twisted minds do twisted things and the children suffer physical and emotional hell bad memories neve fade.
Lucky he ain’t in the old general penitentiary in port au prince from Papa Doc era
Medieval
If he is put in general population he won’t live to be 74.
,,, even better. It would cancel out the annual holding costs in a prison.
Also,
Leave just one tooth, with his sliced tongue, in his rancid mouth.
Evil Bastard needs to be PUNISHED.
,,, even better. It would cancel out the annual holding costs in a prison.
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OK, 15 feet then.
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